The AWS SDK for Go is a software development kit and cloud infrastructure library used to programmatically interact with AWS cloud services. It provides a programmatic interface for authenticating requests, executing operations against regional endpoints, and automating the creation and management of cloud resources.
The toolkit utilizes model-driven code generation to create service clients and employs a session-based configuration system to share credentials and global settings across those clients. It implements signature-based request authentication to verify identity and integrity through cryptographic hashing.
The SDK covers broad capability areas including cloud resource orchestration via state-based polling, large-scale data retrieval through response pagination, and the management of multipart data transfers. It also handles request-response serialization to convert data structures into wire-format requests.
